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A Functional Interpretation Of Pottery From Batan Island, Philippines, Joanne M. Laetsch
A Functional Interpretation Of Pottery From Batan Island, Philippines, Joanne M. Laetsch
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This thesis is a report on a pottery analysis which was carried out in the laboratory of the Department of Anthropology at Portland State University. The earthenware materials involved were collected from three surface sites on Batan Island, Philippines, during the summer of 1969.
The interpretation of these potteries was based upon the direct-historical approach to archaeological research. The use of this method was proposed after a cursory examination of the earthenwares revealed certain general similarities between the archaeological potteries and the ethnographically-known wares produced in the area at the present time. One of the sites was a known habitation, …